Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Green Room
I guess I could have tried to remove, or mitigate the ectoplasmic green cast in post processing. But since my goal is to present images as I saw them, I didn’t consider that option. It is what it is. So what’s up with the green? The story behind it is really a lesson in how NOT to do an urbex [...]
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Exit Light
We hit the school at the right time of day. The sunlight cooperated by dropping in through the many skylights in the main hall and the corridors that flanked it. There were two types of skylights – the ones that were actually installed as part of the buildings design, and the gaping holes in the roof created by nature and [...]
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Happiness is Urbex
This little smily face in the Washington Mill really says it all. There is nothing like exploring the dark forgotten corners of old buildings. Some of the buildings I’ve shot in Lawrence are still occupied but retain their original character. Others are long abandoned, waiting for a chance at new life, or to be razed or renovated in the name or urban [...]
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Hall Pass
This was the scene we were greeted with when we first entered the building and, after a brief and cautious walk through, the first shot I took that afternoon. The building Brian Matiash and I shot was the theater for the school’s campus. The theater itself is flanked on either side by corridors lined with rooms that probably served as [...]
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Zakim
From the archives, a shot of Boston’s Zakim Bridge, from under the expressway. This was taken long before I was interested in HDR and a couple of camera bodies ago (an odd way to measure time, I know), When I finally started to learn HDR, I went back to older RAW files to convert them. I thought, “hey if this looks [...]
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